May 19, 2017

Baizuo

Having grown tired of terms such as "leftist" and "liberal", I'm going with the Chinese term, as "Baizuo" essentially translates to "White Left". I ran across the term in a comment thread I was reading, and had no idea what it meant, so hopped over to Urban Dictionary:

Baizuo (pronounced 'bye-tswaw') is a Chinese epithet meaning naive western educated person who advocated for peace and equality only to satisfy their own feeling of moral superiority. A baizuo only cares about topics such as immigration, minorities, LGBT and the environment; while being obsessed with political correctness to the extent that they import backwards Islamic values for the sake of multiculturalism.

The Chinese see the baizuo as ignorant and arrogant westerners who pity the rest of the world and think they are saviours.

Leave it to the Chinese to succinctly express it. I'm going to "culturally appropriate" their term.